New Dates Added: Going Digital

We have recently added more dates to our monthly Going Digital webinar series.  We hope that if you are interested in learning more about getting started on a digital project, you will tune in and check it out.  This session is free to LYRASIS members.

Presenters: Leigh Grinstead & Alix Bentrud
Date: 6/17/13 (11:00-12:00) ET

Presenters: Leigh Grinstead & Alix Bentrud
Date: 7/09/13 (11:00-12:00) ET

Presenters: Laurie Arp & Leigh Grinstead
Date: 8/22/13 (2:00-3:00) ET

Presenters: Leigh Grinstead & Alix Bentrud
Date: 9/09/13 (11:00-12:00) ET

Presenters: Laurie Arp & Alix Bentrud
Date: 10/08/13 (2:00-3:00) ET

Presenters: Leigh Grinstead & Alix Bentrud
Date: 11/13/13 (11:00-12:00) ET

Presenters: Laurie Arp & Leigh Grinstead
Date: 12/04/13 (2:00-3:00) ET

For more information and to register click here.

LYRASIS 2nd Friday - Your Hidden Treasures: looking to your records, artifacts, and collections to uncover those rare gems in your institution

Are there stories and history of your community hidden in your collections? Are there details to be found in photographs, letters and scrapbooks in your agencies records?  In this session we will talk about strategies for searching out these hidden items.  

Host:  Russell Palmer
Guest Presenter:  Alix Bentrud

Date:  Friday June 14th, 2013
Time:  12:30-2:00 ET

Seats currently available. 

For more information and to Register, click here.

Digital Collection Road Trip : Building a Theological Commons

The Theological Commons at Princeton Theological Seminary Library is a digital library of over 76,000 books on theology and religion. The project is based on the long-standing partnership between Princeton Seminary and the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library. This project is unusual in at least two respects: First, while 35% of the volumes in the Theological Commons are from Princeton Theological Seminary Library, the majority are from the collections of other libraries. Second, all of the content in the Theological Commons is already freely accessible online through the Internet Archive, making the Theological Commons a strictly "value added" project. Its value is in the selection, curation, and presentation of the content. Join us to see the end result in action and to hear about the genesis of the project, means of digitization, selection criteria, technological infrastructure, and our software development methodology.

Host: Regan Harper
Guest Presenter: Gregory Murray, Digital Initiatives Librarian - Princeton Theological Seminary

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET

Seats available. For more information and to register, click here.

LYRASIS Free Lunch and Learn: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants (Live Online)

Are you considering applying for a Preservation Assistance Grant? Join us for a lunch and learn discussion to talk about your project ideas, as well as to get advice on crafting your narrative and goals. We will also be talking about what is eligible for potential digital preservation projects – now included in the Preservation Assistance Grant (PAG) as an option.

Presenter:  Alix Bentrud

Cost: $0

Date/Time:  All times are in Eastern Time

     February 22,   (1:00 - 2:00)
     March 13,  (12:00 - 1:00)

For more information and to register, click here.